Grid Castings
CUSTOM MADE GRID CASTINGS
Steel Mills in the United States and Canada require engineering design improvement, capital equipment, tooling and spare parts such as Grid Castings which GMB Heavy Industries has been supplying for nearly 4 decades. GMB is recognized as a market leader in North America for designing, manufacturing and installing Long-Product Cooling Beds including spare parts.
Our cost effective engineered solutions increases rolling mills productivity and efficiency while improving quality and reducing energy use. Since 1981, we have been providing steel mills and rolling mills in North America with steel, iron and high-wear castings. Most steel mills rely on GMB Heavy Industries to purchase their Grid Casting due to our latest technology and high quality of material.
WHAT IS GRID CASTINGS?
The Grid Casting is the first point of contact for the hot steel on a Long-product Cooling Bed. The function of a Grid Casting is to provide proper support for the hot product, and control it’s cooling to ensure the product meets or exceeds the straightness tolerances as specified under MBQ or SBQ standards. The length of the Step Plates/Grid Casting are engineered to remove the heat from the steel at a specific controlled rate prior to entering the cooling bed rakes.
Grid Castings are also known as Step Plates, Step Castings, Straightening Grids, Notch Castings and Heat-Sink Castings.
CUSTOM DESIGNED STEP PLATES FOR YOUR APPLICATION
GMB Heavy Industries engages our in-house engineering team, utilizing the latest tools to design a Step Castings that matches with your steel mills needs and requirements. GMB Designed Grid Castings are made with materials that are durable with improved wear resistance and not prone to cracking like conventional grey cast iron, ensuring long lasting grid castings.
Our Grid Castings are designed and manufactured incorporating Wear Plates to ensure ease of maintenance. This wear plate technology increase the longevity of your Grid Castings while drastically reducing your maintenance time. Wear Plates provide extended life for your Grid Castings. GMB’s Grid Castings are also designed with in-depth engineering studies to cool the product evenly, ensuring high quality straight product for your steel mill.
DESIGN
GMB Heavy Industries engages our in-house engineering team, utilizing the latest tools to design a Step Plates that matches with your steel mills needs and requirements. GMB Designed Grid Castings are made with materials that are durable and will remain robust over time.
Our Notch Castings are designed and manufactured incorporating Wear Plates to ensure ease of maintenance and increase longevity. Wear Plates provide extended life for your Notch Castings. GMB’s Notch Castings are also designed with in-depth engineering studies to cool the product evenly that ensures high quality end-product for your steel mill.
MANUFACTURING
One of the most important factors for GMB Heavy Industries is to provide the highest quality of the products and spare parts while maintaining a competitive price. Our Step Castings are made with OEM or better quality of materials to increase their service life. To ensure North-American quality standard, we have a comprehensive quality control system at our facility which includes steel mill engineers who have more than 20 to 30 years of experience. We inspect and approve our equipment/ spare parts prior to shipment to our customer.
STAINLESS STEEL GRID CASTINGS
For high demanding areas where product sample cuts are often taken, GMB offers Stainless Steel Step Plates. They are designed to handle the abuse typically associated with cutting samples with an oxy fuel torch. They offer far superior part life when subjected to sample cutting compared to conventional grey cast iron Grids castings.
GMB offers 2 types of Stainless Steel Step Plates:
1- The first which is entirely made of Stainless steel
2- second which incorporates a stainless steel insert for the cutting area in a cast Grid
GMB will work with your product range, production requirements and within your budget to recommend with type works best for you, the customer!
